Re: Set focus on NSView in an NSMenuItem
Re: Set focus on NSView in an NSMenuItem
- Subject: Re: Set focus on NSView in an NSMenuItem
- From: Pierre Bernard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 00:43:18 +0100
Hi Peter!
Hi Hendrik!
I have almost the same setup as Hendrik: I use a NSSearchField in a
menu. When the menu is opened I want the focus to go to the search
field.
At first sight, the solution suggested by Peter appears to work fine.
But something goes wrong. My search field misbehaves when I do this.
To be exact, the window's text editor does not respect the properties
of my search field. E.g. if I hit return while editing, I get a
newline in my search field. I however expect the search field's action
to be called.
So I figured, I could delay setting the focus using
performSelector:afterDelay: or using a NSTimer. I wouldn't know if
this could alleviate the above described problem. The thing is: in
both cases my selector only gets called after the menu is dismissed.
Hendrik, did you get this to work as expected?
Peter, could it be that the text editor is called upon too early?
Best,
Pierre
On 4 Jan 2008, at 21:30, Peter Ammon wrote:
On Jan 4, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Hendrik Holtmann wrote:
Hi everyone,
I got another question regarding the new setView method in Leopard.
Let's assume I set the view for an NSMenuItem to myView. myView
contains an NSTextField. Now when I open the NSMenu I want to set
the focus on this textfield, so the user can directly enter some
text without having to click on the control first (like it works in
the spotlight menu). How can I achieve that? I know how to call
keyOrderAndFront and setFirstRespinder for NSWindows but how can I
do this with an NSMenu. Setting the firstresponder for myView to
the NSTextField does not help unfortunately.
Probably the easiest approach would be to override
viewDidMoveToWindow on the view that will be in the menu, and from
within it call [[self window] makeFirstResponder:self];.
makeFirstResponder is one of a very few methods that is safe to call
on the menu window.
-Peter
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